- Pants that were tight a month ago…I’ve put them away as they are WAY too big now (maybe I should just give them to Goodwill?)
- The bursitis in my hip, which I've had for at least 4 years, is GONE!
- My skin seems clearer and tighter, not just on my face but my whole body. (At least that's my perception.)
- I feel calm, happy, and in control almost all the time.
- I’m basically eating one "healthy" meal a day (salad, vegetables, protein, maybe a few carbs), and at that meal I get full so fast that I don’t really eat very much.
- Rather than eat (or crave things to eat, like candy), I find I do other things now when I’m stressed at work…take a short walk, take a 15 minute nap in my car, or if I really do feel the need to eat, I eat a few almonds.
- If I do feel I really want a treat on the way home, I might stop to have a small scoop of ice cream at Baskin Robbins...and there's no guilt involved! It's my time to "feed" and if that's what I want, that's what I have.
I’ve also just purchased his book called Burst Workouts. He says you don’t even need 20 minutes to stay fit, just 10-15 minutes few times a week. You don’t even need to leave your house to go to the gym. Oh, yeah! That's my kind of workout! I will admit I haven’t been working out lately, but that’s mostly because we’ve had company and I haven’t had the time. Next week, I intend to start doing some of the exercises he suggests.
Another piece of this is I’m still in therapy once a month. The interesting thing is I almost can’t think of anything to talk about that is weight-, body image-, or “mom-” related anymore. I still have a few childhood trauma things that we are working on related to a physical disability that I have and the embarrassment it caused me growing up (yes, kids are cruel). But this is such minor stuff compared to the eating disorder oriented stuff. I feel I’m getting better all the time in all aspects of my life!
It's been really hot here lately (at least for the PNW), in the high 80's and low 90's...so we gave B a really close summer haircut. He hated the haircut while we were giving it to him, but now he feels so much better and so perky! Everyone fusses over him on how handsome he is, which he of course LOVES; and he's much easier to rinse off after he takes a dip in the lake and then rolls in the sand.
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| My handsome "cool" boy |
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Wait, so are you only eating once a day, or were you doing the window thing?
ReplyDeleteI'm really eating only one meal, but I also have some small snacks...such as some nuts or a protein shake in the afternoon, some fruit and yogurt after dinner. So my window is from around 2:30 to 8:30.
DeleteObviously the reason I'm losing weight is because of calorie restriction. But Dr Mercola also says that when you don't eat for several hours after the calories from your last meal have been "used up," your body starts burning extra fat; rather than if you had eaten all along during the day, in which case it would be burning whatever you had eaten.
It just seems to work for me because I don't have to even think about food for the majority of the day. For a person with an eating disorder, who used to restrict but obsess over food, this seems to work for me emotionally too.
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ReplyDeleteI need to get back to doing this... next week I am on my own so I am going to be eating like this with my window from 8 until 2 and then I will be exercising in the evenings instead of eating the food I was lately... I just got into bad habits and I am looking forward to finding some competitive people to exercise outside with, the gym is not really for me, I would much rather do it at home or exercise outside :)
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